A NEW festival is set to bring some big Australian and overseas country music acts to the region later this year.<\/p>\n
Kryal Castle is set to host the first-ever Boardwalk Country Music Festival when the show arrives in late April and it\u2019s fronted by US artists Jimmie Allen and Gavin DeGraw.<\/p>\n
The announcement of the country music festival comes shortly after alt rockers The Smashing Pumpkins will also play the venue, and Kryal Castle CEO Bart Hamilton said it\u2019s a huge double-win for the attraction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely got a lot of fantastic feedback with The Smashing Pumpkins announcement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow being able to add another festival around that, it just shows people that we can do a whole bunch of different types of shows.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis also shows that people just want to come to our venue and see great music so it\u2019s absolutely massive for us. We\u2019re pretty excited about it. It\u2019ll be a good weekend, and definitely busy for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two headliners will be joined by Australian artists Shannon Noll, Kasey Chambers, The Wolfe Brothers, Busby Marou, and Darlinghurst.<\/p>\n
Kryal Castle will be one of the first of nine Australian venues to host the festival.<\/p>\n
With the Boardwalk Country Music Festival to play Kryal a day before The Smashing Pumpkins Mr Hamilton said their back-to-back major events will offer very different atmospheres.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously a country audience is very different to a Smashing Pumpkins audience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit more of an atmosphere and culture that everyone comes for.<\/p>\n
\u201cA country music festival is not something you see often at Ballarat so I think this is the start of something great.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Boardwalk Country Music Festival will take place at Kryal Castle on Saturday, 22 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A NEW festival is set to bring some big Australian and overseas country music acts to the region later this year. Kryal Castle is set to host the first-ever Boardwalk Country Music Festival when the show arrives in late April and it\u2019s fronted by US artists Jimmie Allen and Gavin DeGraw. The announcement of the […]<\/p>\n